... and minted its own currency (see below). Ormonde’s cessation of war with the Confederacy in September 1643 was the only sensible course since there were by this time Parliamentarian rebels on Irish soil, ... army crossed to Scotland to aid the Royalists there. However, Ormonde betrayed the Confederacy and the King when he handed over Dublin to the Parliamentarians in August 1647, preferring the ...

... a couple things brought the phrase "Confederacy of Dunces" to mind. Great book, by ... Swift's better known epigraphs. The first thing this morning that brought a Confederacy of Dunces to mind was a comment made to yesterday' ... new Americans should be passed before an American is given their license to vote. When you have a Confederacy of Dunces voting you end up with results like Fort ...

New markers honoring 18 black soldiers who fought for the Confederacy will be dedicated Sunday at a cemetery in Pulaski.     All of the soldiers were from Giles ... nbsp;   Cathy Wood is president of the Giles County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She says her group and the Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter joined to buy the footstone markers, which will list ...

Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight and hero of the Republic, is challenged by a fledgling hero of the Confederacy! The Confederacy is being provided with newer and more advanced ships from a world that has claimed neutrality in the Clone Wars. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fly to Valahari to negotiate with the planet's rulers, but as events unfold, they find that diplomacy may have to give ...

Recent arrivals to Nashville may only know Nathan Bedford Forrest as the subject of a tacky monument that helps clutter the view as they drive south on I-65. But for many locals, the native Tennessean is a complicated and divisive figure—one who embodies both the noblest and ugliest aspects of...

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post was at yesterday's bizarre teabagger takeover on the steps of the Capitol building. You can read his epic takedown of this foolishness here. An excerpt: "More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that ...